My dad and I got to visit the home computer museum in Bletchley Park. It was great they have many computers and some you can try out and play with like the line of BBC micros and the home computing section has others.another part had office computers like the IBM 5150 and commodore PET. There was also a room about the history of ACORN and has all the computers from them. they also have many rare computers like the APPLE lisa, next cube, sinclair zx80 and grundy newbrain. the museum also includes colossus rebuild, the oldest working computer, a large old main frame computer used for traffic control and a room about the history of the internet.
Here is a link to their website
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Hugo, excellent blog. I'm a museum piece now too :-) The first microprocessor I got to play with was a Motorola M6800. I had to write a paper tape reader driver for it. I wonder if they had one of those at the computer museum in Bletchley Park?
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nope they did not but i wish they did. i never quite understood how those types of computers worked (the one form the 70s that had the switches). sorry for the long waited reply i haven't been on this bog in a while.
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